EIGHT runners have been declared for Sunday’s Group 1 Preis von Europa in Cologne, with the only foreign runner being Godolphin’s Elite Army, whose trainer Saeed bin Suroor has won the race three times this century.

Top local jockey Filip Minarik has been booked, but Elite Army will need to show improvement to figure here. The five-year-old gelding is moving up in grade, having last time out finished fourth of seven in the Glorious Stakes at Goodwood, and his best performance was arguably his runner-up spot in a top handicap at Royal Ascot. However bin Suroor’s stable, having been under a cloud earlier, now seems to be coming back into form.